House Speaker John Boehner and GOP leadership have removed several conservative House members from their respective powerful committee positions, Breitbart News has learned.

Effective next Congress, leadership pulled Kansas Republican Rep. Tim Huelskamp, Michigan Republican Rep. Justin Amash and Arizona Republican Rep. David Schweikert off committees from which they could exert conservative pressure on fiscal matters. Amash and Huelskamp were pulled from the Budget Committee and Schweikert from the Financial Services Committee.

Huelskamp, a freshman elected during the 2010 tea party wave, thinks the leadership move to pull him from the powerful committee is revenge for him standing up for conservatism. It is little wonder why Congress has a 16 percent approval rating: Americans send principled representatives to change Washington and get punished in return, Huelskamp said in a Monday night statement. The GOP leadership might think they have silenced conservatives, but removing me and others from key committees only confirms our conservative convictions. This is clearly a vindictive move, and a sure sign that the GOP Establishment cannot handle disagreement."

“You can expect the house to start rubber stamping the Obama agenda from now on. The tea party is dead and may not recover.

This is what the people who didnt vote will get for their principled stand. They have turned the country over to the socialists. If you think things couldnt possibly get any worse, just wait.”

I agree. Boehner and the old guard went along with the Tea party as long as they were winning elections. Too many conservatives stayed home and gave Obama another four years. So the Tea Party is useless to the old guard now.

Why is it that the Republic has evolved to the point that some Congressmen are “more equal” than others? Was that originally a part of the constitution? Who says there has to be a House Leader? Why can’t they all just assume power as equals?

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